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Visitation is 1 p.m. Saturday at J.J. White Memorial Presbyterian Church until services there at 2 p.m., with the Rev. Melanie Lemburg officiating. Burial will follow in Hollywood Cemetery. Jones Family Funeral Services is in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Enochs was born July 31, 1932, in Birmingham, Ala., to Jack and Elizabeth Weaver Jones.
She and her younger sister, Judith, grew up in Gadsden, Ala., and both attended the University of Alabama. Majoring in English, with a minor in music, Jacqueline received a bachelor of arts degree and married Philip Rogers Enochs of Laurel in January 1954.
The couple moved to Katy, Texas, where Mr. Enochs worked for one year for Humble Oil before being called to active duty in the U.S. Army at White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico. During that time, their first child, Ed, was born at the Army Medical Center in El Paso, Texas. After Mr. Enochs’ discharge from the Army in 1956, the couple came to McComb, which has since been the Enochs’ home. In June 1957, Mrs. Enochs gave birth to the couple’s second child, Betsy.
Mrs. Enochs quickly became involved in the community. She joined the McComb Junior Auxiliary in 1959 and was chairman of the first JA Azalea Ball as finance chairman. She served as vice president of the McComb JA and was nominated second vice president of the National Association of Junior Auxiliaries. In March 1978, she was crowned Azalea Ball Queen, with Norman Gillis Jr. as her king.
Other community organizations in which Mrs. Enochs served in various capacities include the PTA, Pink Ladies, Pike County Little Theater, Cinema Guild, Pike County Arts Council, Pike County Panhellenic Association and McComb Garden Club.
She became active in politics and served as Pike County chairman of the Republican Party. She was a sponsor to the State Teen-age Republicans, an alternate delegate to the 1968 Republican National Convention and a member of the Republican National Finance Committee. She served in a senior staff capacity in the state campaigns of Gil Carmichael and former Congressman and current Sen. Thad Cochran, as well as the presidential campaigns of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. She also was a candidate for selectman in a special city election in the mid-1970s.
Mrs. Enochs was an avid dove, quail, duck and turkey hunter. She and her family also hunted birds, small game and large plains game in Mexico, Belize, Kenya and the Sudan.
She became interested in flying in the late 1960s. She was the first member of her family to earn a pilot’s license, although her husband quickly followed suit, as did each of her children as they became old enough to fly. She eventually earned a commercial license with an instrument rating for single-engine and multi-engine airplanes. Her story was featured in “Women with Wings” in Aviation Travel magazine.
Rather than taking the opportunity to relax when she and her husband became “empty-nesters,” Mrs. Enochs enrolled in the Mississippi College Law School. In 1982, she received her juris doctorate and was admitted to the Mississippi State Bar.
She was an active member of J.J. White Memorial Presbyterian Church. She served as a Circle Leader and as District Chairman of the South Mississippi Presbytery. Along with her husband, she served as co-chairman of their church’s 1983 World Missions Conference and as a steering committee member for a number of missions conferences.
Extremely active in missions work, Mrs. Enochs and her husband participated in numerous projects, including the construction of churches, homes, clinics and clean water systems in Mississippi, Texas, Mexico and Belize. They organized and led construction volunteers from throughout the southeastern and southwestern United States.
Even after the ravages of rheumatoid arthritis made it impossible for Mrs. Enochs to travel, she continued to organize volunteer groups and plan the itineraries, work schedules and logistics support for those groups. Among the many missions projects the Enochs supported are Comunidades Unidas pro Salud, Belize Missions International, Wycliff Bible Translators, Habitat for Humanity, Mendenhall Ministries, Fairview Presbyterian Church in Heidelberg, San Pablo Presbyterian Seminary and Petcanche’ Presbyterian Congregation in Merida, Mexico, Waterlines and the Salvation Army in McComb.
Mrs. Enochs was preceded in death by her parents and her husband, Philip Rogers Enochs.
Survivors include a son and daughter-in-law, Edgar R. Enochs and Pamela K. Enochs of Indialantic, Fla.; a daughter, Elizabeth B. Enochs of Summit; four grandchildren, Phillip Enochs Terrell of McComb, Molly Katherine Enochs and Jacqueline Joy Enochs, both of Indialantic, and Amber Mize and her husband Ronnie Mize and a great granddaughter Gracie Lee Mize of Summit; a sister, Judith Proctor of Birmingham, Ala., and her longtime personal nurses and caregivers, Alice Woods, Eddie Chester, Elma White and Shirley Silas.
Pallbearers will be John Drummond, Robbie Kimmel, Steve Blue, Mitch Dorr, Amos Parker and Benton Gibson.
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